Miyamoto, Erika (Date of defense: 2023-04-19)
[eng] During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army forced over 200,000 women into sexual slavery in comfort stations across Asia. It is estimated that 80% of the ‘comfort women’ were from Korea, and ...
Aguilar Retureta, José (Date of defense: 2016-04-05)
The motivation of this dissertation is multi-fold. Firstly, regional income disparity is widely considered to be a central concern among economists and policy makers. This responds to many facts. Usually, ...
Alfonso Pérez, Gerardo (Date of defense: 2022-02-28)
The South-East Asia region is an increasingly economically important region due to its large population and development potential. The region has however experienced phases of substantial economic turmoil ...
Mussons, Joan Maria (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
Concerns over sustainability and the cyclical pattern of public finances have been especially great since the onset of the global financial crisis. This thesis comprises four essays which aim to examine ...
Al-Hamdouni, Kabir (Date of defense: 2021-03-18)
Despite the universal abolitionist movement against the practice of capital punishment still, countries with the most inhabitants are preserving this penalty in their penal codes. Yet, fortunately, the ...
Milios, Georgios (Date of defense: 2016-06-03)
The present thesis deals with the immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers’ right to family life. It approaches the right to family life as a right that is wider than family reunification and includes ...
Trujillo-Baute, Elisa (Date of defense: 2014-09-15)
Within the European Union (EU), economic regulation is often used as a promotion mechanism to achieve specific objectives. In the telecommunications and the energy sectors this is observable ...
Moscoso Miranda, Henry Bernard (Date of defense: 2021-10-13)
Development economics seeks to provide evidence to improve life quality standards of the societies. This thesis contributes to this field with a multidisciplinary research on health, environmental and ...
Alfaro-García, Víctor G. (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
It is generally accepted that innovation is a source of competitiveness for companies and nations. The impact of innovation activities on business performance ranges from the effect on sales and market ...
Papadomichelakis, Giorgos (Date of defense: 2020-11-05)
The purpose of this dissertation is to study specific cases of all those aforementioned questions in a number of different settings, all of which share one common characteristic of particular economic ...